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Dogs love, i'd wager. Based on their interactions with humans, they are without a doubt feeling something that would represent the pleasant feelings we get when interacting with family, friends, or lovers.

I reckon I cannot know. I have owned dogs for years. We bond, but that's not necessarily love. You would have to ask the dog and you can't. This would have to be pure speculation and usually that just presents your subjective beliefs without he hope of comming to any firm conclusions.

-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

When I say it's the options of evolve or die, I don't mean that's a threat or motivation that gives life a reason. Literally, life dies off just to leave those behind who match the circumstances. There is no motivation, there is only the death of those who are not right to survive.

We care about dying because if a human cares about dying, he'll put all of his conscious and voluntary energy into survival if need be. I think people just try to put evolutionary advantages like faith and motivation into natural laws where there are no such things.

Life exists and evolves for the same reasons stars burn and die; they have no other option. Life is molecules just like everything else, following the laws created in the universe.

--------------------So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

What makes you think we're so much smarter than bonobos or dolphins? And we are animals, I don't see any distinction between the humans around me and the animals I've seen except for my own human bias and the fact that I can communicate with humans more directly. Humans have all the aspects of animals, due to the fact that we're just primates with shoes.

And humans won't survive longer than animals anyway I'd be willing to bet. We evolved from primates just like our relatives, the bonobos and chimpanzees and apes. It's just genetic variations that have allowed us to temporarily develop technology useful to our survival, but just because ants can build anthills it doesn't mean they're not insects.

--------------------So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.